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Today in History – February 6 in History
What happened on this day in history – February 6 in History
| 1626 | Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle. | |
| 1778 | France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris. | |
| 1788 | Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution. | |
| 1862 | The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign. | |
| 1891 | The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif. | |
| 1899 | The Spanish-American War ends. | |
| 1900 | President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines. | |
| 1904 | Japan’s foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria. | |
| 1916 | Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State’s right to claim indemnity. | |
| 1922 | The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years. | |
| 1926 | Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol. | |
| 1929 | Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact. | |
| 1933 | Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich begins press censorship. | |
| 1936 | Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics. | |
| 1941 | The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians. | |
| 1944 | Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops. | |
| 1945 | MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners. | |
| 1963 | The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba. | |
| 1964 | Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State’s seizure of four Cuban fishing boats. | |
| 1964 | Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel. | |
| 1965 | Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku. | |
| 1968 | Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France. | |
| 1975 | President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia. | |
| 1977 | Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee. | |
| 1982 | Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama. | |
| Born on February 6 | ||
| 1756 | Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. Vice President. | |
| 1895 | George Herman “Babe” Ruth, baseball player with the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees and the Boston Braves. The first player to hit 60 home runs in one season. | |
| 1911 | Ronald Reagan, film actor and 40th U.S. President (1981-1989). | |
| 1913 | Mary Douglas Leakey, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. | |
| 1932 | Francois Truffaut, French film director (The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player). | |
| 1933 | Walter E. Fountroy, politician and civil rights leader. | |
| 1940 | Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchorman. | |
| 1945 | Bob Marley, reggae musician. | |
